The Team Team

The Team Team is the Ultimate team that has won the Annual Student Ultimate Tournament at Duke West Term II in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. Altogether, the team has compiled a 8-0-0 record against student teams and is 2-2-0 against the staff team.

The Team Team was approximately balanced between third and fourth years in 2008 when it defeated Team NTP and All Aboard the Fail Boat. In 2009, however, the Team was nearly entirely fourth years, most of which returned from the previous year, and beat Azn Invazn and the Thundercats on the way to its second championship. Peter Yom, a fourth year in 2009, left the Team Team to Thundercat's captain, Tyler Vance, in his will at the end of the termbook. Instead Tyler returned to his Thundercats in 2010, while the Team Team was refreshed entirely by third and fourth years (and one second year girl), led by co-captains Isabella Sanders and Jaclyn Boozalis. After beating The Other Guys in the morning, the Team was faced with a rematch of the 2009 championship against the Thundercats in 2010. The Team triumphed, winning the student tournament for the third straight year. The Team Team was left to Brandon and Nicholas Chen (also known as the asian twins) in the fourth year wills of the captains of 2010. Since the twins didn't return to West in 2011, the Team Team was captained by returnees Estevan Cohn and Britt Hatcher. The Team Team was built around five returnees (Estevan Cohn, Britt Hatcher, Noah Thorn, Blake Hawley, and Bobby Huddleston, all fourth year guys), three new fourth year guys, a third year guy and four third year girls. The 2011 Team Team beat The Other Guys 11-0 and the Thundercats 7-5 in a game that was timed instead of having a score limit in order to have time for the Student-Staff game. The Team Team was left to Michael Schroeder and Rylie Nelson in the fourth year wills of the 2011 captains.

As is tradition, the Team Team has played four games against the staff after their four championship matches respectively. The Team beat the staff in 2008 in a game that was ended early due to darkness. It lost to the staff in 2009 due to the fact that the staff had many amazing male players on their team, which included Noah Setzer, Sam Warlick, and Chad Gorbatkin. Even with the support of some Thundercats in 2010, the Team Team lost to the staff, bolstered by a returning Sam Warlick and new additions including Steven Shifke and Matt Love (it should be noted that the 2010 Team Team was composed of only five fourth years, three of them girls). In 2011, the Team Team (and four Thundercats) handled the staff easily by a score of 11-5.

Roster

• 2008
  • Saxon Sampley
  • Jeffrey Lee
  • Caleb A.
  • Matt Glover
  • Brett Virgin-Downey
  • Jonathan Baker (Who returned as an RC in 2011, played on the staff's team, and still lost to The Team Team)
  • Evan Baker
  • Carson Potter
  • Sophie Chen
  • Andrew Jiang
  • Chris Cross (Chris Nart)
  • Catherine Morita
  • Peter Yom
  • Melissa Verne
  • Isabella Sanders
  • Nikki Neibloom
  • Alora Clark
• 2009
  • Sophie Chen
  • Evan Baker
  • Peter Yom
  • Alora Clark
  • Jaclyn Boozalis
  • Katie Cook
  • Matt Glover
  • Chris Cross
  • William Leeser
  • Brett Virgin-Downey
  • Rob Hagerty
  • Spencer Wilson
  • Scott Jeffrey
  • Temple Price
  • Alex Henriquez
• 2010
  • Isabella Sanders
  • Jaclyn Boozalis
  • Brandon Chen
  • Nick Chen
  • David Daniel
  • Bobby Huddleston
  • Britt Hatcher
  • Anna Wickham
  • Solomon McGinty
  • Noah Thorn
  • Estevan Cohn
  • Blake Hawley
  • Charlie Stainton
  • Teddy Boozalis
  • Elise Brannen
• 2011
  • Estevan Cohn
  • Britt Hatcher
  • Bobby Huddleston
  • Blake Hawley
  • Noah Thorn
  • Roy Lan
  • Benson Robles
  • Tyler Medina
  • Liz Harper
  • Libby Rogers
  • Rylie Nelson
  • Emma Astrike-Davis
  • Michael Schroeder

2009 auxiliary Team Team members

Trevor Quick was the unofficial official manager and coach of the team. Xavier Primus was the unofficial official assistant coach who played into the very angry and very black coach stereotype. Riley Hannan and Lawrence Lee were unofficial cheerleaders.

Zulu Force Dispute

Some members of the Zulu Force ultimate team in 2009 disputed that they could have won the tournament had five members of the Team Team, originally Zulus, participated on the Zulu Force ultimate team instead. However this is probably the case because the Zulus who played on the Team Team were mostly receivers, namely Peter Y. and Alex H., and would not need to have increased the Zulu Force's ability to actually throw a frisbee.

Wall-E

During the most quiet and suspenseful part of the movie Wall-e, the entire camp heard Wall-e announce "the team team sucks." Though some may debate this fact, because it was in a Disney movie, it must be true.